Originally preached June 5, 2016, at Christ Church Branch Cove in Odenville, AL, this sermon covers the sin of partiality from both the Old Testament and Acts 10 and then applies the ideas of scripture to both historical and current examples of societal partiality.
Read MoreThe reason is simple. These police apologists wear blue-colored glasses in which a man with a badge can do no wrong and they have already made up their mind. When faced with contrary evidence, these otherwise rational individuals will twist facts and give an endless line of excuses. They esteem a certain class of men to the point they are unable to see any wrong in them, even when the evidence is hard and numerous.
Read MoreThis book will help you understand the overall picture of the whole Bible, in its parts and as a whole, as efficiently as possible. The average reader should be able to read it all in only about 90 minutes.
Read MoreSometimes the best thing to do is walk away. Stop throwing pearls to the swine, as Jesus said. When the arguments have all been had, and everybody’s made their points a million times, maybe a peaceful split is not the worst answer in the world.
Read MoreThe minimum wage is usually not thought of as a mechanism that oppresses the poor. Taking its intended purpose at face value (i.e. help low-skilled workers earn more income) would lead us to think the exact opposite. But that is exactly what the minimum wage accomplishes. It is a man made law that oppresses the poor by cutting off low-skilled workers from getting an entry-level job. God’s word teaches that all men were endowed with the right to work (Gen 1:28) and receive payment for the labor they do for others (Lev 19:13; Deut 24:15; Matt 10:10; Luke 10:7; 1 Tim 5:18). Any man made law that prohibits two individuals from making a mutual agreement in trading labor for wages is unjust and has negative consequences.
Read MoreAmerica’s healthcare system as we know it today is a great mess; all because we refuse to follow God’s law which is simple, easy to follow, and not burdensome (Deut 30:11; John 5:3). Mankind saw that society was sick and instead of trusting in God for direction, we turned to the State as the answer to all our medical needs. The result has been harmful--exorbitant prices, restricted access, and lower quality.
Read MoreStalking, assaulting, and killing Ahmaud Arbery was unjustified whether we look at Georgia state law or biblical standards. Justice for him will involve holding Gregory and Travis McMichael accountable for their deeds. What follows is a brief look at both the biblical standards and Georgia state law standards applicable to this case.
Read MoreMotherhood can be a delightful blessing. It can also be sanctifying. But those who make it a mark or demand of salvation are adding their own ideas to the New Testament doctrine of salvation, the church, and the family alike.
Read MoreIt is this shift in the philosophy or world-view of society, especially among the shapers of culture, such as intellectuals, scientists and artists, that accounts for the bizarre nature of much modern art. This shift of world-view was really a shift in religious belief, though many would not use the term religion to describe the new world-view. Nevertheless, this is a new belief system that has shaped society’s understanding of life, and society’s understanding of meaning and purpose in life.
Read MoreThe viral video of those two “ER doctors” allegedly of “facts” and “science” is quite misleading in a way that should concern everyone, especially those concerned with facts and science.
Read MoreDid Mohler and Company "purge the seminary of the last remaining conservatives"?
Were these specific layoffs unrighteously motivated by a theological or political bias?
Read MoreC.S. Lewis has been half-truthed on “hierarchy”. He actually warned us against the opposite danger:
”[T]he imagination of people is so easily captured by appeals to the craving for inequality, whether in a romantic form of films about loyal courtiers or in the brutal form of Nazi ideology.” And is this not exactly what we see in these circles? . . .
It is a striking truth those who saw themselves as the most committed of Bible believers and defenders of the inspiration and authority of Scripture were yet also the most dogmatic defenders of the slave system, even of justifications to neutralize the reality of the manstealing and brutal Transatlantic slave trade at the root of it all.
Read MoreTrump’s recent declaration that he has “absolute” authority to reopen the states from their various stay-at-home orders has people from various political persuasions howling about Constitutional checks and balances. Be all that as it may (and I share bigly in that uneasiness), the truth is that any president’s powers under emergency declarations can be far greater than most people realize. Shockingly greater.
Read MoreIn a polarized, paranoid world full of confirmation bias, most people read in order to refute, not to learn, not even with the possibility of learning. . . . This is not the way it is intended to be. It is the way fallen men have made it.
Read MoreIf we are to regain the liberties once established by our forefathers, as well as those entailed but not even envisioned by them, it will be necessary to tip some sacred cows and demolish some intellectual and cultural idols. The alternative is the very type of tyranny for which the Puritan forefathers fled England at the time, only in a purely secularized, refined, and highly potent version—a police-state system I am terming “The Modern Inquisition.”
Read MoreWriting the “Introduction” for these sermons sent me on an historical journey which I had to fight hard not to turn into a 200-page book of its own. The battles over law and jurisprudence that defined early America are simply profound and shocking, and just as profoundly and shockingly lost to us today. We are literally living in the midst of the very tyrannies for which our fathers left England, and against which our early preachers railed from the pulpit for over 180 years afterward. And for this loss—for which the modern pulpit is largely to blame—we are now facing the same mess as the first pilgrims and puritans before they left. But this book also points they way out of it. . . .
Read MoreDid you know God has a favorite Bible verse? Well, he does, and it has big ramifications for your future. . . .
Read MoreGod allows us to have increasing knowledge over time. Indeed, he gives it, provides it, and commands us to go get it. Science is both a gift and a mandate. Knowledge, however, means power; and power means responsibility.
Read MoreMr. Selbrede provided a gentlemanly and thoughtful review. None of his challenges, however, truly present problems for my position in The Bounds of Love, or now A Consuming Fire. . . .
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